Less than two years ago, shiny new robotic arms whirred on an automated assembly line and politicians clamoured to be seen at the hi-tech warehouse on the fringes of Gladstone where a government collaboration with billionaire Andrew Forrest was meant to kick-start a green hydrogen industry in Australia.
Today, the robots lie dormant, the warehouse is empty except for a skeleton staff and the Queensland governments is fighting with Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group over $66 million in subsidies that were awarded to a project from which the company has now walked away.
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